Mark Zuckerberg may not be entirely wrong when he suggests the age of privacy is over or that privacy is no longer a social norm, but we have to draw a line somewhere. Just a note here, though. Imperva illustrated the attack via a tool it developed called Switcher.
Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, and, box (to name a few) without having to resort to stealing the user's account credentials or somehow compromising the cloud provider's servers. mORE: Googles Privacy and Dashboard Options: Still a Tangled Web the company does note that in some of our Services, there are terms or settings that narrow the scope of our use of the content submitted in those Services. Google ought to create a privacy exception that narrows the scope of its service terms for Google Drive, one that minimally states the company will never circulate the information generated from searching within your G-Drive data in any way. It means Googles saying it can, even as Google Drive goes live, silently collect information about what weve placed on its servers, and I dont mean innocuous demographics, like how many people store stuff in Microsoft Word versus Google Document, iWork Pages or plain old.
We may need your permission to do things you ask us to do with your stuff, for example, hosting your files, or sharing them at your direction. If any Google service warrants privacy firewalling, its Google Drive. The token means users don't have to enter their password every time they want to access the service. We learned recently that Google actively searches gmail messages for images with hashes matching those of known child pornography images.